Selected Lectures + Panels
A roundtable discussion featuring Adiene Jenik, Li Sumpter, and Tal Beery exploring recent works that address grief, grievance, and healing during global pandemic and social upheaval.
Traditional expressions of grief and loss have been severely restricted during covid. Our panel of speakers will discuss how different faiths are facing these challenges and are adapting their traditions in these troubled times.
Join us virtually at JMM as we officially open our latest project, in the absence of a proper mourning. This installation asks us to confront numerous difficult questions related to our connections to one another and transforms the Jewish Museum of Maryland’s public-facing facade into a site for collective mourning and communal care.
An online discussion with artist and educator Jean-Marc Superville Sovak about his “a-Historical Landscapes” series.
Join us for an online interview featuring artist Eliza Evans in conversation with Tal Beery of Arts and Ecology. This discussion will focus on Evans' latest project, All the Way to Hell, an activist art project for disrupting fossil fuel development on private land in the US.
Our panel will feature artists Alex Young, Matthew Friday, Brooke Singer, Colin Lyons, and Robert C Beck. They will discuss the ways their proposals for Owning Earth explore the connections between art and science, and complicate popular solutions to existing environmental challenges. The panel will be facilitated by Tal Beery.
Our panel will feature artists Erin Antonak, Christy Gast, Emilie Houssart, and Sariah Park. They will discuss the ways their proposals for Owning Earth challenge existing paradigms and open new realms of possibility. The panel will be facilitated by Tal Beery.
This lecture considers how art schools might adjust to accommodate those artists undertaking new instituent practices. It distills principles for the slow multidisciplinary pedagogy required for these practices to thrive in the academy by drawing on frameworks developed by Nomad9 MFA, Beespace, and School of Apocalypse.
Occupying the Museum begins with a 45 minute lecture to define and illustrate each of these tactics through the work of the Illuminator, Natural History Museum, Fossil Free Culture NL, Gulf Labor, Liberate Tate, MTL+, and Occupy Museums. We then divide into smaller groups to develop actions aimed at addressing a particular target, namely, the Van Gogh Museum.
A lecutre on two artist-run institutions he has co-founded to help address what we have become.
As social capital seems to rise for protest art in the Trump era, actual resources needed to do our work remain scarce while many channels of potential financial support are considered vulgar in relation to the purity of our practice. This is the razor thin line that activists walk within a hyper-market city and globe. So we ask, how do you make your decisions from both an ethical and practical standpoint in order to sustain? As our practices are more urgent and harder than ever, we propose this question as a pathway to deepen our analysis of the picture of power in which we are included.
We will meet with two members of the curatorial team behind Works on Water, the new triennial exhibition and performance series of art on, in, or with the water. We will discuss the relationships between art and the future of our waterways, and learn about the flourishing water art movement.
A discussion on the role of the arts and arts institutions in facing social and ecological challenges.
Join us for a discussion with internationally acclaimed artists to explore effective art strategies for combatting inequality in Yonkers.
Moderated by Neal Gorenflo, Editor, Shareable Magazine, a conversation about creating alternative economies and networks of solidarity.